if you want to understand more about yourself, you need to get in touch with your feelings and understand them. Otherwise, you deny them, either by ignoring or suppressing them. The result can be rather like an amputation.
“Newspapers are owned and published by rich men. Rich men all belong to the same club. Sure, there’s competition – hard, tough competition for circulation, for newsbeats, for exclusive stories.”
― The Long Goodbye
― The Long Goodbye
“There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.”
― The Long Goodbye
― The Long Goodbye
“Wade said hello here and there and people seemed glad to see him. But by that time they would have been glad to see Pittsburgh Phil with his custom-built ice-pick. Life was just one great big vaudeville show.”
― The Long Goodbye
― The Long Goodbye
“To say good-bye is to die a little.”
― The Long Goodbye
― The Long Goodbye
“We had quite a fight.’ ‘You mean you had – and mostly with yourself.”
― The Long Goodbye
― The Long Goodbye
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